_LOVE in Excess:_ OR, THE FATAL INQUIRY, A NOVEL. The THIRD and Last PART. _Success can then alone your Vows attend,_ _When Worth’s the Motive, Constancy the End._ EPILOGUE to the _Spartan_ Dame. By _Mrs._ Haywood. [Illustration] _LONDON_: Printed for W. CHETWOOD, J. WOODMAN, D. BROWN, and S. CHAPMAN. [Illustration] LOVE in EXCESS: OR, THE FATAL ENQUIRY. The Third and Last PART. Tho’ Count _D’elmont_ never had any tenderness for _Alovisa_, and her Extravagance of Rage and Jealousie, join’d to his Passion for _Melliora_, had every Day abated it, yet the manner of her Death was too great a shock to the sweetness of his Disposition, to be easily worn off; he cou’d not remember her Uneasiness, without reflecting that it sprung only from her too violent Affection for him; and tho’ there was no possibility of living happily with her, when he consider’d that she died, not only for him, but by his Hand, his Compassion for the Cause, and Horror for the unwish’d, as well as undesign’d Event, drew Lamentations from him, more sincere, perhaps, than one of those Husbands, who call themselves very loving ones, wou’d make. To alleviate the troubles of his Mind, he had endeavour’d all he cou’d, to persuade _Melliora_ to continue in his House; but that afflicted Lady was not to be prevail’d upon, she look’d on her self, as in a manner, accessary to _Alovisa_’s Death, and thought the least she ow’d to her Reputation was to see the _Count_ no more, and tho’ in the forming this Resolution, she felt Torments unconceivable, yet the strength of her Virtue enabled her to keep it, and she return’d to the Monastery, where she had been Educated, carrying with her nothing of that Peace of Mind with which she left it. Not many Days pass’d between her Departure, and the _Count_’s; he took his way towards _Italy_, by the Persuasions of his Brother, who, since he found him bent to Travel, hop’d that Garden of the World might produce something to divert his Sorrows; he took but two Servants with him, and those rather for conveniency than State: _Ambition_, once his darling Passion, was now wholly extinguish’d in him by these Misfortunes, and he no longer thought of making a Figure in the World; but his _Love_ nothing cou’d abate, and ’tis to be believ’d that the violence of that wou’d have driven him to the use of some fatal Remedy, if the _Chevalier Brillian_, to whom he left the Care of _Melliora_’s and her Brother’s Fortune as well as his own, had not, tho’ with much difficulty, obtain’d a Promise from her, of conversing with him by Letters.